Stop the 16 March marches and Latvians revising history!

Stop the 16th March marches in Riga, Latvia and Latvians revising history!

Since 1998 on the 16th of March and every year, in the very centre of Riga, Latvia, marches have been regularly held to praise the ‘heroism’ of the former Latvian Legion, i.e.Waffen SS veterans in their combat against the allies during the Second World War. Each year these events have received tacit (and sometimes very explicit and public) support from state authorities (in 2012 from the president himself) and have been attended by deputies of the Latvian Parliament, members of the Riga City Council and officials of the Ministry of Defence. In March 2014, for the first time ever, the Latvian government commendably banned any minister from attending the march and sacked Einars Cilinskis for insisting on participating. Nevertheless, in Riga, on March 16, 2015, a European capital, in the heart of NATO and Latvia; a country that at the time held the presidency of the rotating council of the European Union, two politicians and the minister for justice still attended the SS march ( despite the ban) and over 2,000 people including ultra nationalists from the UK. In 2016, under the new government the ban was lifted. German protesters were prevented from boarding a Baltic Air flight and five arrested on landing in Riga airport under section 61. See links below for full details http://stop16marchinriga.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/dont-stand-by-mr-lidington-source-hope.html

This petition believes Latvia, the international community, the UK government, the European Union and NATO should condemn the Nazi event in clearer terms, as Waffen SS veterans are not seen as legitimate “heroes” in any EU member state which Latvia has been granted status since 2004. (see Report on Latviaby the ECRI (European Commission Against Racism andIntolerance published 21 February 2012)

See Salford City Radio 94.4FM, Interview in 2013 with Monica Lowenberg speaking about her trip to Latvia and the annual SS march. Interview accompanied with a photo reportage of the 2013 March 16 SS march.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCUfORLodOY the marchers were not allowed to march to a drum with a swastika on it or place photos of SS obersturmfuehrers onto the Freedom Monument . A step in the right direction...

Another shocking video where British journalist Graham Phillips asks Estonian politician Jaak Madison if he is not ashamed to be attending a fascist march and is then subsequently arrested and dumped into a policevan to the amusement of the crowd

In October 2014, in his capacity as Latvian foreign ministry spokesman Eihenbaums told AFP in response to Latvia hitting a low note in its musical history, after Latvian theatres staged a musical heralding mass murderer and member of the notorious Arajs Kommando Herbert Cukurs as a hero, ”It’s totally unacceptable to portray people like this as heroes,” But he added that while Latvia “has consistently condemned war crimes”, as a democracy it supports freedom of speech ! http://www.timesofisrael.com/nazi-hunter-pans-musical-about-latvian-death-squad-leader/

Interesting that free speech did not extend itself to the protesters who at the opening night of the musical were according to Dr Efraim Zuroff , chief Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Centre moved away by police. The same treatment was given to protesters at the SS fest last year, 5 German protesters were arrested on arrival at the airport and this year peaceful protesters were forced to stand in a pit behind the bridge over the canal whilst others were arrested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdOzqRz5Y7c&feature=youtu.be . Free speech? The Latvian government must truly think that its allies in the EU, NATO and OSCE are completely stupid however, they would be wise to remember that You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

NOTE In May 2004 Latvia simultaneously joined NATO and the European Union.

Already in a press release 16.03.1999 the Simon Wiesenthal centre in Jerusalem condemned the march of the legionaries and stated, ‘although these units were not involved in crimes against humanity, many of their soldiers had previously served in the Latvian security police and had actively participated in the mass murder of civilians, primarily Jews...The stubborn insistence of Latvia’s SS Legion veterans to conduct a public march to glorify their role as combatants on behalf of the Third Reich is a clear indication that many Latvians have still not internalised the lessons of WWII... not one of the numerous Latvian killers who collaborated with the Nazis has been brought to justice since Latvia obtained its independence, far too many Latvians feel free to identify with those who fought alongside the perpetrators of the Holocaust rather than with its victims’.

Joseph Koren, President of the association "Latvia without Nazism" (Latvia) and DrTatjana Ždanoka (Tatyana Zhdanok), EP deputy (Latvia) try to restore the wreathto the victims of Nazism and remove the Latvian SS plaque that was placed infront.

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